Gordon B. Mills is the Wayne and Julie Drinkward Endowed Chair in Precision Oncology, Director of Precision Oncology, Director of SMMART Trials and Professor in Cell, Development and Cancer Biology in the Knight Cancer Institute at

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. He is most well known for his discoveries in the

PI3K Phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks), also called phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases, are a family of enzymes involved in cellular functions such as cell growth, proliferation, differentiation, motility, survival and intracellular trafficking, which i ...

pathway in breast cancer. Mills received his BS in 1975, MD in 1977, and PhD in 1984, all from the University of Alberta, Edmonton. He did a postdoc in immunology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and then joined the faculty at the

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in 1985 as an assistant professor and director of oncology research. He was recruited to

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in 1994. He held multiple leadership positions at the MD Anderson Cancer Center including Chair of Systems Biology, Director of the Kleberg Center for Molecular Markers and was co Director of the Khalifa Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy. He held the Weiss Distinguished University Chair. He was recruited to the Knight Cancer Institute as Director of Precision Oncology in October 2017. Along with his research in PI3K, he focuses on signaling pathways and markers for targeted therapy. He and

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lead the ''Targeting PI3K in Women’s Cancers''

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initiative. His research has been funded by many sources such as the

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, Adelson Medical Research Foundation,

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, and the

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Awards

* 2006 Inaugural Waun Ki Hong Award for Mentorship, MD Anderson Cancer Center * 2008 The Peter Steck Memorial award of the Brain Tumor Foundation * 2009 Waun Ki Hong Award for Excellence in Team Science, MD Anderson Cancer Center * 2010 -2018 Olga Keith Wiess Distinguished University Chair for Cancer Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center * 2012 - Elected fellow of the

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* 2013 Brinker Award for Excellence in Science, Susan G Komen * 2014 Laura Ziskin Award, SU2C/AACR * 2015 - Fellow of the

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* 2016 Finneran Family Prize for Excellence in Translational Research * 2018- Wayne and Julie Drinkward Endowed Chair in Precision Oncology

References

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